Is this template free?
Yes. Download all nine files as Word documents and CSV sheets with no signup and no card. Edit with AI is the optional path, where the agent scores your last review and builds the scorecard from your own numbers. The rest of the packs sit in the template library.
What format are the downloaded files?
Word documents (.docx) for the report, the findings, the action plan, the presentation and the method explainer, and CSV (.csv) for the four sheets, zipped together. They open in Word, Pages, Google Docs, Excel, Numbers and Sheets. In River the same content opens as live Docs and Sheets.
Our institution mandates its own review template. Does this conflict?
No, and you should follow theirs for structure. Every one of those outlines asks somewhere for progress against the last action plan and none of them says how to measure it. This computes that, plus the concentration scorecard, and you write the answers into whatever shape your provost's office requires.
What if we cannot find the last review?
Record that, because it is a finding in itself, then look for an action plan or a memo from that cycle before giving up. Where the record is genuinely gone, start from the enrolment and outcome data, pulled with the definitions each figure was computed on, and set this cycle up so the next review has something to score.
Is a hundred per cent action rate from four recommendations really meaningful?
On its own, no, and the pack says so in the report rather than burying it. Four, one and seven are the cell sizes and every percentage is published beside its counts. What the record supports is naming owners, not a claim that owners guarantee anything.
Will it tell us which concentration to cut?
No, and a template that does is reading one column. The sheets put cost per completion beside attainment, so a track that is expensive and strong reaches the dean as a costed decision with both numbers in the same sentence. Where a review turns into rebuilding a course, the course design template picks it up.
How does this relate to accreditation or faculty review work?
A programme review answers to your dean, on your institution's cycle. A self-study answers to an accreditor's own criteria; the self-study pack handles that, citing outcome results the outcome assessment pack collects on a rotation. An individual's case for tenure is a third kind; the faculty portfolio pack runs the same discipline at that level.
Academic Programme Review Report Template